ficina Vidre Negre was born as a contemporary sculpture, a
symbol of a dynamic and continuous development with the
need for strong identification, even in terms of image.

In a context of peripheral node of the motorway, the building is set within a
park, planted with native species, in which a sort of town square accompanied
to the entrance.
The dynamism of the client is shown in architecture, volume changing,
a prism completely covered in black glass faceted and integrated photovoltaic
panels.
The structure is split reflected in the wide expanse of water over the stage function, is
the reserve of water for fire-fighting system and irrigation of the park.
The decomposition of the volume remains in the interior, intersected a sequence of
spaces on four staggered levels, illuminated by more than cuts and side windows.
In plan the building is on the east-west, in two wings separated by a central block of facilities (stairs, toilets and bars). Operating areas are designed as open-space, while the executive
offices, the private sector, are tested in the east of the building, projected to the outside and
suspended in a vacuum.
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03 Walkway leading to the entrance and reception
of the building

04 The building facade with the entrance to the offices
01 The Office building is covered in black glass faceted and intergrated photovoltic panels

The dynamism of the client is shown in architecture, volume changing, a prism
completely covered in black glass faceted and integrated photovoltaic panels.The
structure is split reflected in the wide expanse of water over the stage function, is
the reserve of water for fire-fighting system and irrigation of the park.

The basement, with conference rooms and parking spaces are lit
by large windows to which the green is sucked into chasms of ballast contained in rocks.
Inside solid oak flooring
Reception desk of Damilanostudio design architects.
In external floors and ceilings in oak cooked in an autoclave, vietnam black stone floors with large plates of extra-clear glass railings.
The entire structure is of type point with beams and reinforced
concrete pillars brick and cladding.
Building components and systems provide the Class A classification, according to the main guidelines outlined in the DCR 981247 as amended by D.G.R. 46-11968 of 04.08.2009 and the Regional Law No. 13 of May 28, 2007 as amended by DGR 45-11967
of 8.4.2009.
To ensure maximum energy savings is provided a heating system
with centralized systems of distribution areas, a low temperature
heating system with radiant floor system and roof, installing a water-water heat pump performance to meet as provided in Annex

4 of the DCR 98-1247 with C.O.P. (Coefficient of performance) ≥
4, a primary air exchange system with heat recovery efficiency of
recovery characterized by greater than 50%, as prescribed in the
scheme of 2N DCR 98-1247.
The heating and / or cooling of the various environments is assured of No. 4 HEAT PUMPS WATER-WATER type can provide
a heating capacity of 39,300 watts each. for a potential total of
117,900 watts
The exterior doors are made of aluminium with thermal break the
system EKONAL AVANTIS 75 in the configuration with high thermal insulation SHI Super Insulated
The Insulating glass units are stratified Low Emissivity “Zeronove”
new concept, with thermal transmittance value Ug = 0.9 W / mqK
Composition windows:
4 +4 mm laminated outer pane low-emissivity
Cavity 16 mm warm edge insulated duct with Argon Gas
4 +4 mm laminated inner pane low-e *
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Duilio Damilano

graduated at Polytechnic of Turin in 1988, founded his
architectural firm in 1990. He was born in Cuneo from
a family of sculptors and he was interested in architecture
since he was a child developing interest in plastic and material aspects of objects.
The work of the practice, according to critic Brunetto De BattĂ¨,
breaks immediately the connection with the masters of Piedmont
area standing out and develops two lines of architectural composition
that almost negate each other. On one side the clarity and purity of signs
in stately homes and on the other side the sperimental forms of its commercial and industrial buildings. These are two opposite lines of research,
sometimes strident each other, that seem not to destabilize the architect
and who live and feed off each bringing out three interpretations of the
works suggested by the architect Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, one of the
most important italian architecture critics: the symbolic, the sculptural
and the emotional.
Major areas of interest of Damilanostudio architects are the design of residential, offices, commercial, and graphic both in Italy and abroad.

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A close-up shot of the photovoltic panels of the building
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The building is set within a park, planted with native species,
in which a sort of town square accompanied to the entrance.

The geometric language of the building beautifully
contrasts the orgarnic park on which its seated

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GRATICULE HOUSE
LOCATION
ARCHITECT
WRITER

GREAT FALLS, VIRGINIA
DAVID JAMESON

COURTESY OF DAVID JAMESON

PHOTOGRAPHY

NIC LEHOUX PHOTOGRAPHY

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GRATICULE HOUSE
Situated on a hillside site, the Graticule House is conceived to be a trace, or reference datum, allowing a reading of the relationship between the building and nature. Fundamental to the conception of the house is the notion of cadence, where
repetitious vertical and horizontal markers of the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tectonics are juxtaposed
with the particularity of the forest and ground plane. Light and space are modulated
by meshing ribbons of glass and wall planes that form a tessellation of solid and void
02 Glass-work by the entry creating a transparent effect through the interior space
01 Pathway leading to the entry

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Living room interior with a forest view

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Window detail on the exterior

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Designer chair by the entry

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The stilts the graticule house sits on give an
illusion of a tree house in the forest
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